Today's News

The case of Tracy Lynn Dotson, accused of shooting her husband in a domestic dispute in August, will be heard by a LaRue County grand jury.

Dotson’s preliminary hearing was set for Sept. 30 in LaRue District Court. However, her attorney, Carl Howell, waived the hearing and requested the charge be heard by the grand jury.

Dotson, 32, was charged with first-degree assault after allegedly shooting her husband, Anthony Dale Dotson, 44, in the shoulder with a .357 Magnum handgun.

My daughter Amanda is growing tomatoes in a small backyard in Lexington. She is having some luck – but I told her she needs fertilizer. I promised to bring her a bucket of chicken poop for side dressing the next time we visit.

I’m not sure how that will go over with the neighbors in her subdivision. On the other hand, what they don’t know won’t hurt them.

My granddaughter Claire, who is not yet 2, is enthralled with the cherry tomatoes – they are “hers,” she says. She eats them right off the vine.

The South Fork Area Homemakers met Sept. 15 at the LaRue County Extension Service office with president Emogene Gardner presiding. Hostesses were Della Thomas and Martha Owen.

Gardner opened the meeting by having the club read together aloud the Kentucky Homemaker Creed.  Treasurer’s report was given by Della Thomas and secretary’s report by Janice Bowen.

Dr. Todd Deaton, editor of the Western Recorder in Louisville, will speak at Campbellsville University's chapel service  at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Ransdell Chapel at 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville.

The chapel service is free and open to the public.

Deaton has served as editor of the Western Recorder since January 2009. He has also served as managing editor of the Baptist Courier in South Carolina from 1996 to 2009, and as associate editor of the Biblical Recorder in North Carolina from 1989 to 1996.